Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64]

From: Andi Kleen (ak_at_suse.de)
Date: 08/19/05

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    To: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>
    
    

    On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:52:13PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
    > With earlier kernels(2.6.11) I was able to boot my machine with ACPI
    > enabled, but most devices(sound, onboard ethernet, SATA controllers,
    > USB) were unusuable but they were detected. I was able to work around
    > this issue by disabling ACPI in my system BIOS.

    Keeping it on and using pci=noacpi might be better.

    > available. Since 2.6.12, when I re-activate ACPI in my system BIOS, I
    > can't boot my machine as it gives me an error about no IOMMU and having
    > 6GB of RAM. This error was not listed in the dmesg posted before as I
    > can't boot my machine past this error.
    >
    > Here is the exact output when booting 2.6.13 with ACPI enabled:
    >
    > Decompressing Linux ... Done
    > Booting the kernel
    > PCI-DMA: More that 4GB of RAM and no IOMMU
    > PCI-DMA: 32bit PCI IO may malfunction.<6>PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU

    This has nothing to do with ACPI. The problem here is that you
    didn't enable the IOMMU code in the kernel .config

    -Andi
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